The Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs with world-renowned trumpet soloist Håkan Hardenberger, featuring works by Paul Terracini, Schuller and Bernstein.
Håkan Hardenberger joins the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at Newcastle City Hall on Saturday 8 August, with the trumpet taking centre stage for the evening. It's a programme that moves from contemporary Australian writing to a brass-heavy symphony and a familiar arrangement of a Broadway classic.
Opening the night is Gegensatze by Paul Terracini, followed by Gunther Schuller's Symphony for Brass & Percussion, which puts the orchestra's brass section right up front. The evening closes with a suite from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Crees. It's a broad spread of styles to cover in one sitting, with the trumpet running through all of them.
That trumpet is Hardenberger's, and he's one of the few people who make a living as a soloist on the instrument. The Times once called him 'the cleanest, subtlest trumpeter on earth', and he's spent over 40 years pushing the boundaries of what the trumpet can do, often working with composers to write new music for it. He's played with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouworkest, the Wiener Philharmoniker, and the London, Boston and NHK Symphony Orchestras. His 60th-birthday season featured two trumpet concertos co-commissioned for him: Towards Paradise by Jörg Widmann and night-sky-blue by Helen Grime. Born in Malmö, he studied with Pierre Thibaud at the Paris Conservatoire and Thomas Stevens in Los Angeles, and he teaches at the Malmö Conservatoire.
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Tickets are A$86 for A Reserve, A$71 for B Reserve, and A$51 for C Reserve. Concessions start from A$46, students from A$36, under 17s from A$31, and under 35s from A$43.
